Singapore Monitor, 27 March 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Wednesday, March 27, 1985 30cents
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  • 392 1 Banker Lien and developer Ng join venture led by Bank of China BUSINESS tycoons Lien Ying Chow, Ng Teng Fong and the Kuok brothers have teamed up with the Bank of China to invest in China and Hong Kong They are among 40 shareholders in
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  • 244 1 AP HOUSTON, Wednesday TWO MONKEYS instead of four will fly on the space shuttle next month because of fears that the astronauts could be exposed to a form of simian herpes. Robert Overmyer, a commander of the 51-D Spacelab Mission, which is set for
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 237 1 Kentucky Why some It's either jail Fried students 90k or corrective Chicken are not training, closes 2 penny JL\fs i ud 9 e tells outlets pinching pickpocket SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 2 relatives.' P3 games in the City. There's one place in piay a meaner game ot the city
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    • 23 1 THE S PORE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS BUILDING CENTRE For all building materials A equipment Til: *****13/*****62 Bfe. 19 #03-63 Outran Park Compta (0316)
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  • home
    • 387 2  -  A special day at Outram Secondary as students get into the spirit of giving By CHEE LI CHOO THE LAST Friday of every month in Outram Secondary School is special. Students call it the "Five cents, 10 cents" day. It is the time when they reach
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    • 390 2  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE AMERICAN typewriter company Smith-Corona, which has retrenched more than 650 workers in the East week, says it is willing to be flexile on retrenchment benefits. The company's Singapore manager for Industrial and Employee Relations, Mr Phillip Chua, said
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    • 146 2 ALL 193 South Korean women workers retrenched by Smith-Corona left for Seoul on Monday. They returned to their country on a Singapore Airlines flight after working in Singapore for nine months. Confirming their departure, Mr Phillip Chua, Smith-Corona's manager for Industrial and Employee Relations, said
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    • 383 3  -  By SIT YIN FONG SEASONED pickpockets Yong Siew Choo, 27, ana her aunt, Yong Siew Hong, 32, have landed in jail again. But when Siew Choo, who had seven previous convictions, and Siew Hong, who had six, went to prison again on Monday,
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    • 136 3 Lianhe Zaobao AN INDONESIAN aircraft carrying 25 passengers and a crew of three made an emergency landing 1.5 km off the coast near Seletar Airfield yesterday afternoon. The twin-propeller seaplane touched down safely at 2.40 pm and no one was hurt. The plane, belonging
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    • 380 3  -  By CHEW YEN FOOK MOST STUDENTS attending the National University of Singapore's intensive second-language camp say they are confident of passing the second-language examination To be held after the course. The four-week course started two days ago for some 200 undergraduates without second language reSiirements
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    • 713 4  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG SCHOOL principals interviewed yesterday were generally pleased with Education Minister Dr Tony Tan's promise to review the criteria for promoting Secondary Four Normal students to Secondary Five Normal But they said that the first step should be to revamp the
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    • 313 4  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO A TAXI company, Singapore Commuters Limited, is offering its drivers two ways of making some extra income from adver- tisements placed behind the front seats of the taxis. One way is through canvassing. Drivers wno successfully canvass for
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    • 135 4 THIS 1.5 metre-long monitor lizard (right) was all ready to attack a bird's nest at the East Coast Parkway last Sunday. But the lizard did not get away with it. The parent birds caught it in the act and chased it up
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    • 285 6  -  Interviews conducted by CHEE LI CHOO and CAROLYN LEE THE EDUCATION Minister, Dr Tony Tan, announced in Parliament two days ago some changes on educational policies he would be making or recommending to the Cabinet. The changes concerned: THE PRIMARY school priority registration scheme for the third child
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    • 1640 6 MR S PARAM, 54, a salesman: 1. Rating of Dr Tony Tan: "The minister is fair and reasonable. Fair because he is going to scrap the graduate mothers priority scheme. It caused too much unhappiness." 3. Views on the changes: "Streaming should be done
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    • 552 8  -  IN PARLIAMENT iBioiuimniBin Reports by EE BOON LEE LOONG SWEE YIN and YONG POW ANG MR GOH Chok Tong and Dr Tony Tan yesterday took exception to the way Mr J B Jeyaretnam (Workers' Party Anson) phrased his questions about the presence of a
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    • 148 8 THE LEAD content of petrol will be reduced further from the present 0 4 gm per litre to 0 15 gm per litre to the same level as that Sermitted in the United tates and Australia. Dr Ahmad Mattar, the Environment Minister, disclosed this
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    • 291 8 A CLASS A patient undergoing a major surgery may have to pay up to $4,900 for operation fees alone while a Class B2 patient pays only up to $200 and a Class C patient, a maximum of $120. For an appendix operation,
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    • 214 8 THE NEXT few years' intake of students into the university's dental course has been revised from a proposed 60 to 40 per year. This compares with the average annual intake of 37 between 1974 and last year. Announcing
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    • 143 8 AUTHOR Alex Josey (right) would not have had to pay $400 a month for drugs to treat him for Parkinson's disease if he had not insisted on going for Class A treatment in hospital. Parliament was told yesterday. As a Permanent
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    • 112 8 LAST YEAR, 174 or 0.4 per cent of the 47,843 persons who paid their hospital tees out of their Medisave accounts, had overdrawn. The average amount they overdrew was insignificant, about $175. In releasing these figures, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Minister of State (Health)
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    • 488 8 MR CHAI Chong Yii (People's Action Party Bukit Batok) suggested in Parliament yesterday that a plot of land in a housing estate be set asiae for retired farmers to work on during their leisure time.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 74 3 Venue Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Hill Street Date 27th March to Ist April only Time 12pm to 10pm daily JB Furniture imported from Europe and also Japan, H IH wide range of styles there s something all tastes and every budget! FURNITURE FAIR 5-seater sofa suite H eT- I^* g*
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    • 127 4 Now, you can got more out of your Japanese car. Improved handling. Specific applications available for Plus a firm stable ride. Japan** can. WW, Monro, The Premium I Replacement Shock Absorber. wM, Shod, ft Monro® shocks are Absorbent nb precision engineered automatically adjust and compensate for all loads, roads and
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    • 180 7 Tea Garden® j Lurching out at the Tea Garden. So delightful, itll grow on you. The Tea Garden is just the place The salad bar deserves a special to meet for lunch. mention, as you can either help yourself Even in The Garden City it is to a meal in
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  • world
    • 328 9 Quick apology leads American officials to conclude shooting was unpremeditated WASHINGTON, Wednesday PROMPT EXPRESSIONS of regret by the Soviet Union over the shooting of a US Army major in East Germany have led the US Government to conclude that the incident probably was unpremediated, American
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    • 116 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Wed THE GOVERNMENT has set up an inter-ministry committee to facilitate the conduct of trade with China. Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleign Hamzah said yesterday tne committee, cnaired by the foreign ministry, would explore ways to improve
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    • 206 9 AP TAIPEH, Wednesday TAIWAN'S former military intelligence chief and two of his aides were indicted yesterday for the murder of a ChineseAmerican journalist who was killed in California last year, the Defence Ministry said in a press statement yesterday. The
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    • 198 9 ROSEVILLE (Illinois), Wednesday FARMERS who want to express outrage at US Budget Director David Stockman now have the perfect opportunity to let friends and neighDours know just what they think. A roll of toilet paper with David Stockman's picture on each sheet costs U554.95 <S$ll) plus
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    • 496 9 AP SEOUL, Wednesday THE RETURN of the Chinese Navy torpedo boat from South Korea to China along with its surviving, dead and wounded crew members has been postponed for 24 hours because of bad weather, it was announced on Monday night. A few hours
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    • 842 10 WASHINGTON, Wed SLOWLY, warily, all but imperceptibly, the US Administration may be inching its way back to a role in Middle East negotiations Policymakers are far from convinced, however, that the time is quite right Said a senior official last week:
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    • 380 10 UPI SEOUL, Wednesday FOR THE FIRST time, North and South Korea are simultaneously confronted by uncertain succession a coincidence that could create political instability on the Korean peninsula, diplomats say. In the South, President Chun Doo Hwan's plans to pick a successor before his
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 89 10 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS THE Amazing Kreskin. whose mental powers have brought him a measure of fame, went looking for something in New Orleans last week'- a buyer for a 30-minute television pilot. The show, called Kreskin's Quest, will show the parapsyrhologist investigating unexplained
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      • 105 10 A NEW YORK clothier is searching far and wide especially wide for someone who can wear size 76 pants. The Justin Scott store is doing a variation of the story of Cinderella and the glass slipper by offering US$5OO (551.130) worth of clothes free to the
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      • 101 10 GURU Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's new glasses are not nearly as controversial as the emperor's new clothing. Rajneesh (above), whose takeover of an Oregon community and recruiting prof;ramme brought him national headlines, recenty started wearing glasses. "His eyesight has not been good for several years he's a
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      • 128 10 STEVIE Wonder, who on Monday accepted an Oscar "in the name of Nelson Mandela," a jailed Black nationalist leader, was banned yesterday from South Africa's air waves. The state-owned South African Broadcasting Corp said in a television news report Wonder's music would b$ banned from its
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      • 90 10 ROMAN Catholic Bishop John Baptist Wu of Hong Kong began a week-long visit to China on Monday and said his journey would interest Catholics "all over the world." Bishop Wu and his delegation were met by an official of the Chinese Religious Affairs Bureau, which invited
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    • 316 11 AP AMRITSAR, Wednesday A NATIONWIDE alert has been issued to prevent the entry of reputed international terrorist leader Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, "The Jackal," following intelligence reports that Sikh extremists living abroad have hired him to assassinate some Indian leaders, an official source
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    • 212 11 AP BANGKOK, Wed VIETNAMESE troops that intruded into Thailand ambushed a Thai patrol near the northern Tnai-Cambo-dian border, killing one Thai soldier and wounding a border policeman, a senior provincial official said yesterday. The official, who asked not to be named, said
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    • 176 11 AP WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE HOUSE of Representatives, delivering a hard-fought victory to President Ronald Reagan, voted yesterday to authorise spending US$l.5 billion (553.4 billion) for 21 more MX missiles. Mr Reagan tied approval of the weapons to the success of the USSoviet arms control talks.
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    • 92 11 THE ROADS of Bangkok may be notorious for their frequent traffic jams. But that is only one side of the picture. Bangkok streets, too, can be full of surprises for a foreign visitor, as these pictures show. The picture at left shows a lorry travelling along
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    • 90 9 (X HOME SERVICE Nl IN THIS SECTION IS MOVING. The Home Services section of The Singapore Monitor is being moved to Fridays, starting on March 29. We've changed its purpose, and even its name to suit your demands. The all-new "For The Home" section has everything you need to up-date
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    • 65 11 If you're BALDING.... we have the BARE facts about Hair. CHAIN HAIR CENTRE offers you Hair weaving and General Hair Care Service promptly and efficiently. For a FREE INDIVIDUAL Consultation telephone *****61 for an appointment CHAIN HAIR CENTRE 35 Selegie Road #02-04 Parklane Shopping Mall, S'pore 0718. Tel: *****61 Ki
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  • money
    • 313 12 THE WEAK Hong Kong dollar, plus losses from some of its companies in Hong Kong, wiped out $15.6 million in book value of Shan-gri-La Hotel's investments in the British colony. In its results, the auditors noted that the company's directors did not consider it
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    • 555 12  -  By OEI SIN GIOK KENTUCKY Fried Chicken, the fast food chain, closed down two of its Orchard Road outlets yesterday afternoon. There is no more of the finger lickin' stuff to be had at Centrepoint or Orchard C E. This leaves the chain
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    • 421 12 UPI COLUMBUS (Ohio), Wednesday ON MARCH 8, a Friday, Mr Bob McDavitt and his wife drove to a branch of the Home State Savings Bank to deposit their pay cheques, as they did routinely on Friday evenings. Mr McDavitt wishes
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    • 237 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Wed HAW PAR Brothers International Ltd has recorded a 30 per cent drop in group pretax profit to $12.80 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1984, from $18.26 million previously. This was reaped on a reduced group
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    • 706 13  -  Diamond sees a big market for its energy in the world's fastest-growing region 5L P T BANGSBERG N HONGKONG SPECIAL TO THE MONITOR DIAMOND Shamrock Corporation, the US$4 billion-a-year (Ss9 billion) American energy and chemicals giant, is taking a fresh look at the Asia/Pacific region
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    • 174 13 j HMLLSTREET STOCKS closed mixed yesterday after trading in a fairly narrow range most of tne day, an apparent reaction to disappointing earnings prospects for several blue chip issues, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off by 0.22 point to end
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    • 297 13 THE DOLLAR staged a broad retreat yesterday, undercut by falling interest rates in the United States and renewed concern abroad about the stability of the American banking system. As the dollar resumed last week s selloff following a two-day pause, gold prices rose. Republic National Bank in
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    • 648 13 UNITED International Securities Group pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec 31 was down 66 per cent to $1.38 million from last corresponding period's $4 million while turnover was down 41 per cent to $3.1 million from $5.3 million. Group after-tax profit registered an
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    • 151 13 OVERSEAS Union Securities Group pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec 31 was down 35.7 per cent to $2.1 million from $3.2 million on the back of a 16 per cent decline in turnover to $2.88 million from $3.43 million. Group after-tax profit
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    • 152 13 MAJOR policy changes and developments affecting the Malaysian stock market will be discussed in the second national conference on the securities industry in Malaysia. The conference, to be held on April 20 at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton, will also focus on investment opportunities available
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  • opinion / letters
    • 518 14 TOUR SAT ON PARLIAMENT DEAR Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, I salute you for your statements in Parliament recently. Continue to give Singapore a clean, efficient and dynamic government. For, by doing so, you are setting a fine example of honest government
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    • 434 14  -  LIM ENG CHENG Singapore 1439 IT IS with a heavy heart that I write to you about the policy of serving People's Action Party (PAP) constituencies first when providing Housing and Development Board maintenance services. Initially, one would think that the policy is
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    • 91 14 I MUST thank Mr Teh Cheang Wan for his detailed explanation in Parliament last Wednesday of the rulings which disallow singles from owning Housing and Development flats. What puzzles me most is that the existing rulings allow a family of two to own a
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    • 329 14 HAVING read The Singapore Monitor report on Mar 23 and watched "Today in Parliament" on Mar 22 where the Prime Minister debated over the budget and the increase in wages for ministers and MPs, I couldn't agree more with the PM's implication
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    • 96 14 "IF YOU THINK you have a job to do as newspapermen, then I, too, have my job to do as Prime Minister We should be on par if only editors, too, have to stand for election and let the whole country vote for them. It is only fair that
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    • 432 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT HARDLY a day passes without a young boy being detected hiding in an isolated place armed with a can of glue or paint and trying to mess up his own life. This act of self-destruction is called glue-sniffing (others use
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    • 1012 15 ONE OF the groups most talked about during the recent elections was the yuppies. Now that the election fever is over they seem to have been forgotten. Not a word is said about them in the parliamentary debates. Yet, they are an
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 470 16  -  Landed property is still most valued in a fluctuating property market By ANNIE CHIA BUYING a house, in particular a terrace or a semi-detached, is the best hedge against inflation in a fluctuating property market, according to a report from property consultants Chestertons Lim Oh This
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    • 40 16 All Types Detached Semi-detached Terrace Flats 1981 90.3% 96.5% 95.6% 95.8% 86.7% 1982 92.9% 95.7% 96.1% 962% 90.8% 1983 91.8% 94.9% 94.7% 94.7% 90.1% 1984 87.2% 91.5% 93.2% 93.5% 84.3% Source: Department of Statistics. Singapore
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    • 262 16  -  By VINCENT FONG TWO CONSTRUCTION companies in Singapore are going into real estate development. Kumagai-Gumi, one of Japan s leading overseas construction companies, and local contractor, Zenecon Fte Ltd, are jointly developing 48 semi-de-tached houses in Mimosa Villas at Seletar Hill
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 229 16 "Where do you go for easier, better home financing?" or without CPF interest rates 11 to 25 years o Bridging finance available. HUDC (Phase 1) loans available up to 85% of valuation. A wide choice of easy repayment schemes tailored to your individual needs Payment of interest only during the
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  • 1985 SINGAPORE OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP MARCH 27TH-31ST BUKIT COURSE, SINGAPORE ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB. Tiger BEER
    • 493 17  -  By ERNEST FRIDA IF I have to narrow my selection of winners in the Singapore Open Golf Championship to two players, they would be Taiwanese Chen Tze-Ming and Terry Gale of Australia. For Gale, the ex-sheep farmer, has once again lived
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    • 174 18  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE.failure of Singapore players to raise their game in the Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand Opens, has dented the hopes we have had of a strong local challenge in the Singapore Open at the Bukit course this week. Even the
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    • 169 18  -  By ERNEST FRIDA SOMETHING new, I heard on the last day of the Rolex Masters. I just could not believe when seasoned campaigners like M Marimuthu and Lim Swee Wah strongly objected to players from Australia, Taiwan and the United
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    • 123 19 TAIWAN. Australian and Japanese, have dominated the Singapore Open since the inauguration in 1961.The past winners. 1961 Frank Phillips (Australia), 1962 Brian Wilkes (South Africa), 1963 Alan Brookes (South Africa), 1964 Ted Ball (Australia), 1965 Frank Phillips (Australia), 1966 Ross Newdick (New Zealand), 1967 Ben Arda (Philippines), 1968
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    • 206 19 M MURUGIAH, the winner of last week's amateur title in the Rolex Masters, will be going flat out to complete a double. The 20-year-old Sembawang Country Club member, who is in superb form, carded an aggregate of 298 for the 72-hole tournament. A win in
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    • 176 19 THE big question everybody will be asking when the Singapore Open starts tomorrow at the Bukit course is: "Can a. professional win the hole-in-one prize for the third year running?" Last year, Chung Chun Hsing of Taiwan hit the jackpot when he
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    • 634 20 YOU'VE read the claims. Spalding declares that its Top-Flight and Top-Flight XL are "the longest balls." AMF Ben Hogan says its 329 is "unbeatable" off the tee. Ram says the new test reveals its Golden Ram Tour 400 and Laser balls are "the longest
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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    • 290 18 WHO SAID COMPANY CARS HAD TO BE DULL? somebody must somebody listening), company cars these days do seem to be a on the And worst of all, dull to drive. If you already fallen asleep thinking about it, we'd like to you about a car that It's the new Nissan
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1209 21 T-amum— *303 s* Live Sample 3.00 Opening Programme is Mine Ti The Simmons Lome New Wilderness Super Bear The Lorne Greene travels to Alaska to the magnificent &W .^H^WT grizzly A fight to the death involving a wolf, a powerful A V <Ofe m\ caribou and a mother grizzly determined
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  • leisure
    • 476 22 wmmm mtsamsm American Caesar (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) WITH the help of the paradoxical Mac Arthur, Japan, once America's bitter enemy, emerges as a modernised and industrialised power. The Japanese and Mac Arthur bring out the best in each other as almost overnight, MacArthur
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    • 423 22  -  Land of the Giants and Bewitched to make a comeback TV SCENE By WONG SING YEONG REMEMBER The- Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart!, Flipper, Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes, Gomer Pyle, Petticoat Junction, I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, Dad's Army, Mr Ed the Talking Horse, Gilligan's
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    • 533 23 Jackie will not be modelling for Playboy f starstruck} TERESA TENG "modelled" for Penthouse magazine. Now, Playboy wants Jackie Chan to pose for it. in the raw, and it is offering him a hefty sum. Although Jackie has no objections to nude appearances, having
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    • 704 23  -  By JUDITH MICHAELSON in Hollywood DIANA ROSS, one of the evening's presenters, best represented the Academy Award ceremony's mood of glad-handing and good cheer. She stopped hither ana yon, graciously accepting praise for her purple-and-black-seauined pants outfit It's Galanos" ana introducing her longtime friend
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    • 129 24 AT SOME Indian restaurants, you have a choice of eating from plates or banana leaves. Although most of us now use plates and the leaves are not so readily obtainable these days, the traditional way of using your fingers to scoop the rice from a banana leaf
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    • Article, Illustration
      638 24  -  Eating tasty and spicy Indian food in cool surroundings By WONG AH YOKE EATING Indian curry is a pleasure that is often more comfortably enjoyed at home. Outside, in this tropical weather, the thought of streams of sweat pouring from one's pores has deterred many a neatly dressed
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    • 701 25 LAT-WP By CHARLES CHAMPLIN in Hollywood PSEPHOLOGY, which derives from the Greek use of pebbles in voting, is not a term that is much employed these days. It means the scientific study of elections, and in Britain, psephologists are a whole subculture of
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 126 22 IMM&0 Break the wind-trap that causes the pain Acidity is only partly the cause of indigestion »'sm«g »w»ks ims pain. Wind is the main culprit. When your delicate T Ay stomach balance is disturbed, small foamy ai* A gas bubbles distend the stomach—and as the IvV. pressure increases so does
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 243 24 II j. (CLARINS) PAR S Beauty (Seminar I Ms Marion Diele m Here's really good news for ladies who care for their skin. Ms. Marion Biele international training manageress H SI of Clarins, Paris will be conducting a full day seminar on [H beauty for the face and body. H
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 175 25 UDO: TOMORROW AT 9.15pm A Charity Film Premiere Under the distinguished patronage of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Community Development Mr. S. DHANABALAN In aid of the COMMUNITY CHEST of SINGAPORE Tickets $5, $10, $25 available at YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL (Plaza Singapura) and TANGS SUPERSTORE Sponsored by Crystal Time
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 695 25 FILM GUIO€ NY TRIPLE (C) VENUS (*****97) (1, 3.30, 7.15, 9.30): CHASE A FORDALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): THREE TUNE (C) STOOGES GO UNDERCOVER (C) LIWAGU (*****30) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): GAMES GAMBLERS PLAY (C) ANG MO KIO (*****01) (1.30, 3.15, 7.15. 9.30): EXORCIST II (E) BEDOK (*****77) (1.30,
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 288 26 i 1 w s r J s One of Gerhard Behr's works on display at the Goethe- Institut PHOTO EXHIBITION A PHOTO exhibition by Gerhard Behr, entitled Chil- i dren of this World, will be held at the Goethe-Insti- I tut, Singapore Shopping Centre, until March 30, noon to 6
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    • 606 26 I VlUt J 15TH SINGAPORE I J jDlCdnf ELECTONE FESTIVAL I IwfiilßillWHflL THE auditions of the I yj 11 HKllilf UaiHmifT 15th Singapore Electone I u// Snl|PZ u r HmPI vt* Festival will be held at I AMKCPBSH TK the Yamaha Music If iCi School on April 20 and 11
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    • 499 29 VAN Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Ward* 0.35 c«nt» p«r word 0.55 c«nU p*r word Display $7 70 p«r col. cm $10.00 per col. cm Bmlmm Hra Mon-Frl, 9am-spm Sal. 9am-lpm ACCOUNTING LOOSE-LEAF BOOKS, Accounts. Records Were simply better 274 7474/ i 221 7177. A 1 ACCOUNTING 280
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  • sports
    • 470 30  -  Kelvin Sng was emphatic in his win as Singapore thrashed Indonesia 5-0 in team event REPORTS BY ALFONSO CHAN MANILA IT WAS the chance of a lifetime for Singapore to record their best international score in a team event, but only Kelvin Sng seized the chance with
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    • 276 30 SEEN AND HEARD THE not-so-rosy picture painted of Manila by the international Press in recent months appears to be somewhat exaggerated. Even though things do get a bit hot now and then, life strolls on at a leisurely pace. And even the daily
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    • 253 30 TWO WOMAN squash players have captured the imagination of the Filipino squash community at the East Asia meet. One is, of course, their number one player, Elaine Hinnegan Stevenson, who doubles as their team coach. At five feet three inches, this petite
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    • 1009 31 IPS MARK HATELEY and Luther Blissett. Each an English international striker. Each splendidly successful this season. Each connected with AC Milan But very differently For Mark Hateley was having a glorious season in Italy till his unhappy knee injury in Turin. He
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    • 168 32 RENDEZVOUS: BRUNEI MERDEKA GAMES AFTER ONLY THREE days of action at the Merdeka Games, despairing faces of those competitors, who failed to win medals, are getting to be a common sight. Like this Singapore hockey player, (above) who obviously felt low after bis team was held
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    • 332 33  -  RENDEZVOUS: BRUNEI MERDEKA GAMES By K SILVAM in BRUNEI MALAYSIAN ace Rabuan Pit inched closer to the sprint double when he won the 200 metres in a time of 21:12 sees. His time bettered the Sea Games 200 m record of 21:14 set in Thailand in
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    • 209 33  -  By B KULA in BRUNEI SINGAPORE are in line for a bronze medal in the Merdeka Games table tennis team event. All they will have to do is beat Malaysia in their last round-robin league match this morning (9 am). It was Singapore's two victories over the Philippines
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    • 101 33 WE WILL not be able to announce the results for the D SERIES of the Score for Cash contest as three of the six matches featured in the coupon were postponed due to Malaysia's involvement in the pre-World Cup matches. The Football Association of Malaysia
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    • 545 34 FLOP ONE RENDEZVOUS: BRUNEI MERDEKA GAMES Reports by B KULA and K SILVAM in Brunei SINGAPORE track and field athletes had another mediocre day, managing only one more bronze out of the 10 events on the second day of the Merdeka Games at the
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    • 155 34 FLOP THREE SINGAPORE'S sepak takraw team met with disaster at the Paduka Seri Begawan's Malay College yesterday. They were sent packing out of the semifinals of the sepak takraw event by Thailand with a 3-0 defeat. Singapore will now have to meet
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    • 143 34 FLOP FOUR SINGAPORE were beaten by Malaysia in the opening game of the six-nation Merdeka Games basketball tournament at Chung Hwa Middle School last night. Playing an unimpressive game, the Singapore team managed to take the lead only once they scored the opening
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    • 319 34 FLOP TWO THE PHILIPPINES tennis team was simply too powerful for Singapore yesterday. Our boys played hard, but it was only our doubles pair of Hashim Sidek and Albert Teo who managed to give the Filipinos some resistance. Hashim and Albert, after
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    • 47 34 1 7 PESTA SUKAN MERDEKA GAMES 1985 [yA y'' i MEDAL TALLY UvA D Is; o On nn Singapore 0 0 4 uirD(gQ(o]U (©(slfin}© ls@ull§) I i Ist Merdeka Games Brou9M u 6y e C™?/'Ml td Soe 96 Q v v YONEX ASCOT MIKASA (gGOSEN DCQ.M WjlKhgjjSfe
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 110 35 THIS ATfiLETE from Singapore obviously found the weather in Brunei a bit too hot for his liking. So, with a little bit of initiative, he improvised his own shelter. Off came the jacket, which gave him shade from the sun's rays. To top that,
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    • 470 35  -  BRUNEI 1 SINGAPORE 1 REPORT by KENNETH JALLEH in BRUNEI CREDIT should go to hosts Brunei, who made 21 chances to score through sheer aggressive play. They threw everything they had into the game after they scored the equaliser. But, as luck would have it,
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    • 644 35 AP LONDON, Wednesday EUROPE'S assault on the 1986 World Cup soccer tournament resumes tonight with four qualifying games that are expected to end in comfortable victories for the home nations. In Group Two, West Germany,
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    • 187 35 -J Trtd# *****21 •nqum«» *****2 *****2' JL English food hearty and wholesome. Try the typical English Flsh'n Chips, minas the newspaper wrapping of coarse. (We've nsed then ff ft, to decorate the walls). Oar Chicken in the Basket beats all the "Anger-licking good" alternatives in town. Getting to the real
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